The plane carrying the passengers crashed in the Sonora desert in Northern Mexico. One passenger was injured in the crash. They are 100 km off course from a small mining camp 120 km away. The passengers must choose 7 items from the surviving wreckage to ensure their survival and potential rescue in the hot desert environment.
The plane carrying the passengers crashed in the Sonora desert in Northern Mexico. One passenger was injured in the crash. They are 100 km off course from a small mining camp 120 km away. The passengers must choose 7 items from the surviving wreckage to ensure their survival and potential rescue in the hot desert environment.
The plane carrying the passengers crashed in the Sonora desert in Northern Mexico. One passenger was injured in the crash. They are 100 km off course from a small mining camp 120 km away. The passengers must choose 7 items from the surviving wreckage to ensure their survival and potential rescue in the hot desert environment.
The plane carrying the passengers crashed in the Sonora desert in Northern Mexico. One passenger was injured in the crash. They are 100 km off course from a small mining camp 120 km away. The passengers must choose 7 items from the surviving wreckage to ensure their survival and potential rescue in the hot desert environment.
Directions: Read the following text and write down seven of the most important items from the list to ensure survival and/or rescue. The Situation About ten o’clock in the morning in July, your small airplane has crashed in the Sonora desert in Northern Mexico. Both pilots are dead and all that is left of the aircraft is a burnt-out shell. One of the passengers is injured. The was no radio in the airplane, but some of your fellow survivors think that you were about 100 kilometers off course when you crashed. Just before the crash the pilot informed you and the other passengers that you were 120 kilometers south of a small mining camp. From experience you know that daytime temperatures can reach 43°C (110°F) and night-time temperatures reach freezing. All the passengers and yourself are dressed in light clothes. The area is flat and arid as far as the eye can see. The following list of items survived the crash in good order: jack knife flashlight with four batteries large plastic poncho detailed pilot’s chart of the area instrument to measure blood pressure compass one overcoat per person one pocket mirror one pair of sunglasses per person two bottles of vodka book Edible Desert Animals bottle of 1000 salt tablets one quart of water per person loaded .45 pistol one red and white parachute